Program

Cultivate your leadership style and build a community with the ALI cohort during this in-depth, two-day retreat. In this session you will identify your preferred leadership style - including strengths and challenge areas - and learn how leverage the strengths and challenges of others. The concept of “leading in place” will be a focus, and you will have the opportunity to delve deeply into understanding yourself and others by engaging with a variety of assessment profile tools and working through a case study.

September 13, 2019

This session will focus on developing a framework for a strategic plan within UA. You will have the opportunity to analyze the current UA culture and readiness to change, identify change initiatives, conduct a stakeholder analysis, and develop a plan to cultivate a coalition and reduce resistance. 

Network with leadership from across campus to discuss topics crucial to UA’s growth, such as university finances, communication strategies, and policy.

Learn the power of design thinking to create innovative solutions! In this session, you will learn about the problem-solving process, biases that impact our ability to make quality decisions, and pathways to solve complex organizational problems.  

Network with leadership from across campus to discuss topics crucial to UA’s growth, such as university finances, communication strategies, and policy.

Building on your newly enhanced skillset of leadership style-flexing, emotional intelligence, bias awareness, and change management, you will now focus on the heart of leadership: attracting, recruiting, developing and retaining high-quality and diverse team members.

Network with leadership from across campus to discuss topics crucial to UA’s growth, such as university finances, communication strategies, and policy.

In this final session, you will build on the skills you have acquired to assess and improve organizational effectiveness, as well as manage long-term projects and initiatives.